Saturday, January 19, 2013

Colors of Arizona - Day 1

We arrived in Arizona yesterday for a two week stay in the sun, away from the deep freeze that hit Alberta yesterday.

As we hurried through Terminal 3 of the Phoenix SkyHarbour Airport, I noticed a huge stained glass panel on the ceiling...actually three huge panels...depicting (I think) air travel. If we hadn't been in such a hurry I would have gone down to the lower level to get a picture of the whole effect, which included a large biplane suspended from wires below the stained glass panels. As it was, I was lucky to get these pictures with my cell phone. I really have to start carrying my 'real' camera with me.

This is the center panel

A close-up of the center of the center panel

One of the end panels

﻿ Either both the end panels are the same (this looks like a space ship blasting off) or I took two pictures of the same panel and none of the other one.
It was nice to get to the house and check everything out. There's always something new - more growth, more fruit, or in this case less fruit. Daughter Sara had been there a week before us and she and her kids harvested the tangerine tree and ate every one of the 14 tangerines that had grown there...our first tangerine crop. By all reports the fruit was delicious.

But they left eight large, juice oranges on the orange tree, which I promptly picked and brought inside for display and eating. There was no sign of frost on them even though the previous week here had temperatures below freezing. (It's 20C here today).

Too bad we can't grow our own bananas, but I thought they looked very pretty and inviting in with the oranges.

Isn't it lovely that all of these pictures feature two of my favorite colors, orange and yellow. Purely coincidence.

We're looking forward to an enjoyable two weeks here. My sister Wendy and her husband Randy will be joining us tomorrow for a week. They're from Winnipeg, which is even colder than Edmonton.

12 comments:

Those stain glass windows are beautiful! I' never noticed them.Always seeing fresh oranges off a tree are a treat. Bet they are delicious!You're missing some fantastic weather here! -36 windchill and snowing all day.Have fun with Wendy and will be waiting for more blog entries...

Those stain glass windows are beautiful! I' never noticed them.Always seeing fresh oranges off a tree are a treat. Bet they are delicious!You're missing some fantastic weather here! -36 windchill and snowing all day.Have fun with Wendy and will be waiting for more blog entries...

I was wondering when you'd check back into Arizona. You're lucky. It's rather warm now. We were freezing a week or so ago. All of my plants were frozen but I'm thinking they will come back. I'm not cutting anything until about the middle of March when I can see what's dead and what's not. Have lots of fun here. Start with some darned good Mexican food.

I always think of incoming or outgoing airplanes creating lots of vibrations and wonder if it effects the stained glass windows. Those are gorgeous and very, very expensive. A tiny little round window in our Kansas church was insured for $32,000.

I dont remember that awesome stained glass art at the airport....we better head south to check it out!!We hope to take a trip this winter. Either Phoenix, or FL, or Nashville, or Sitka AK, or nowhere cuz we are too busy once again!

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